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  1. #Rutgers yanked alum Rami Elghandour’s engineering school graduation invite over pro-Palestine social posts he wasn’t even planning to mention in his speech. We’re watching a livestreamed genocide, and unis are worried about hurting the feelings of people backing it.

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m

    #FreeSpeech #AcademicFreedom #Palestine #gazagenocide

  2. A quotation from Henry Commager

    We do not need to fear ideas, but the censorship of ideas. We do not need to fear criticism, but the silencing of criticism. We do not need to fear excitement or agitation in the academic community, but timidity and apathy. We do not need to fear resistance to political leaders, but unquestioning acquiescence in whatever policies those leaders adopt.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1965-12-18), “The Problem of Dissent,” Saturday Review

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #acquiescence #agitation #apathy #censorship #criticism #dissent #intellectualfreedom #resistance #silencing #timidity #academicfreedom

  3. "In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China."

    Academic freedom is threatened by institutional conflicts of interest. Her research has been reinstated after she said she would take legal action.

    theguardian.com/education/2025

    [Edit: more background on the topic thebureauinvestigates.com/stor]

    #AcademicFreedom #SheffieldHallam #UKresearch #ConflictsOfInterest #UKuniversities #HumanRights #ForcedLabour #Uighurs #Xinjiang #LauraMurphy #UKChinaRelations

  4. 2 #professors from #Rutgers University in #NJ went out on a limb to write a “mutual defense compact” for #BigTen schools.

    The professors—1 teaches chemistry in Camden, the other psychology in Newark—said they were frustrated by #Trump’s abrupt cuts to #research #funding & its efforts to dictate #policy on some campuses.

    They were also troubled by the lack of a unified response by #university leaders.

    #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #HigherEducation
    nytimes.com/2025/04/30/nyregio